Cottage with Many Flowers and Milk Maid, Charming Naive Painting on Paper echo Ken Bowman (1937-2014)

Ken Bowman (1937-2014)

already rather determined looking

I found this piece at an estate sale in Marblehead

These well-worn wooden toy bowling pins--one of two sets I found at a recent estate sale--are just wonderful objects to have around

They definitely seem to have some age to them--I might guess 1920s or so but I'm not entirely sure

Cottage with Many Flowers and Milk Maid, Charming Naive Painting on Paper echo Ken Bowman (1937-2014)I extricated this charmer from an old frame and mat with hopes of finding it clean and dry, and indeed it is, tempera or watercolor on paper well mounted to a piece of thin cardstock cardboard. And what a lot of joy painting it clearly brought to RR Strang, who signed their name at lower right those exuberantly painted passages of densely packed flowers alone seem like a total celebration. I'm not entirely sure the gender of the older person standing